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0302 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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and almost none for trees to be used as fuel and timber,
or for plants for forage. In good years, the average poor
inhabitant of Transcaspia or Persia raises grain enough for
his family, and a small supply of fruit and vegetables, suffi-
cient for his own needs, but usually not enough to sell. He
cannot feed much live-stock, at best only a couple of donkeys
or oxen, and three or four sheep or goats, if he is fortunate.
His only fuel is weeds, laboriously gathered by the women
and children, or dried dung, with which he ought to manure
his fields. It suffices to cook his bread in out-of-door ovens,
but not to warm him or his house. He has practically no
means of getting anything but a bare sustenance — bread,
with a little milk and a few vegetables, and more or less
fruit. Only with the greatest difficulty can he scrape to-
gether enough produce to sell at the local bazaar in exchange
for clothes to keep him warm in his fireless mud hut in
winter. He is always on the verge of starvation, and has
no hope of change.

In the Lop basin, conditions are far more favorable. The
amount of grain that can be profitably sown, and hence the
population, is limited by the spring water supply as abso-
lutely as in Persia, but fortunately the supply keeps increas-
ing as the season advances. The maximum flood from the
loftiest mountains does not come till June. The amount of
water is then so great that not only do even the poorest farm-
ers have enough and to spare, but a large amount goes to
waste and aids the underground water in supporting the
reeds, tamarisks, and poplars which characterize the zone of
vegetation. When once his grain has been sown and watered,
the Chanto has little anxiety, for he knows that, however